SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Now that reviews are in of the first of the two movies about Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, it is becoming clear that the first movie, “jOBS,” starring Ashton Kutcher, will become a must-see for techies, Apple fans and possibly even investors.

Despite many mediocre reviews and comments by the other Steve — co-founder Steve Wozniak — about inaccuracies in the film by Five Star Feature Films, there are many reasons Apple
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watchers are going to want to see the movie. It might take their minds off the stock price, for one thing.

The biggest draw for some may be Kutcher himself, though that casting choice was originally criticized by many. The actor, in fact, will be at the Macworld trade show on Thursday to promote the film.

“This was honestly one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever tried to do in my life. I admired this man so much,” Kutcher said in a Q&A with the audience after “jOBS” closed the Sundance festival on Friday night. “I’ve never seen Abraham Lincoln walk into a room, but I’ve seen Steve Jobs walk into a room.” Read the L.A. Times on Kutcher at Sundance.

While Kutcher is mostly known for “That 70s Show,” as the former husband of actress Demi Moore, and as Charlie Sheen’s replacement in “Two and a Half Men,” it appears that he shows some acting chops in “jOBS.” He also said ended up in the hospital two days before filming began, because he got sick trying to remain on a fruitarian diet, as he tried to emulate some of Jobs’s unusual habits.

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According to many reviews, Kutcher encapsulates Jobs, his mannerisms, the charismatic showmanship, and his cutthroat business tactics. The Verge wrote that Kutcher “nails the mannerisms of Jobs the Orator. The pacing. The hand gestures. The unique quirks in his speech pattern. It takes a second to adjust to Kutcher’s lower-pitched voice, but after that, he captures Jobs’s trademark showmanship.” Read the Verge's review.

Wozniak, however, has already been panning the film, pointing out inaccuracies in the one clip released publicly and telling the Verge that he read a script as far as he could stomach and he “felt it was crap.

He declined to work with the filmmakers. Instead, Wozniak opted to work with the producers of the second, more anticipated biopic of Jobs, by Sony Pictures, based on the biography by Walter Isaacson. The screenplay is written by Aaron Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his script of “The Social Network.” Read the Verge interview with Wozniak.

Other reviews pointed out holes in the “jOBS” story line, such as the omission of Jobs’s famous visit to Xerox PARC, where he got the idea for the Mac’s user interface. In addition, the Hollywood Reporter called it a “passably entertaining account of the career of one of the 20th century’s great innovators that breaks no new stylistic ground and hews closely to the public perception of the tech giant.” Read Hollywood Reporter review.

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Still, this criticism is not likely to matter much to the Apple faithful and others in Silicon Valley and the tech industry. Just as the fans of “Mad Men” love to parse over the painstaking midcentury details portrayed in the show and quibble over dialogue gaffes or prop mistakes, the faithful will do the same, looking for the good, the bad and the inaccurate.

The filmmakers of “jOBS” have been aiming for some historical accuracy, even filming many scenes at the Jobs family’s former home in Los Altos, Calif., and obtaining cars, clothing and computers of the time periods in the movie, which spans the late 1970s to 2001, when Jobs introduces the first iPod. Read Tech Tales column on filming in Silicon Valley.

So after “jOBS” the film is released in theaters nationwide on April 19, expect a flood of tweets, blog posts and other commentary from techies. It’s another way of keeping their hero alive, and of reliving some of that lost nostalgia of the early days of Silicon Valley, when some fruit orchards could still be found.

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